Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a trustline registry for trustline providers who meet prescribed requirements after submitting an application to the department and undergoing a criminal background check, as specified. Existing law defines a trustline provider as a person 18 years of age or older who provides child care, supervision, or in-home educational or counseling services, and who is not required to be licensed as a child day care facility. Existing law requires the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network to establish and maintain a toll-free line to allow parents, employment agencies, child care referral groups and registries, alternative payment programs, and others to determine if a provider is a trustline applicant or a registered trustline child care provider.

This bill would require the department to to, on or before July 1, 2019, create and make operative a Web-based application process for submitting completed trustline applications to the department, as specified, and to make the Web-based application available to county welfare departments, local child care resource and referral agencies, and employment agencies, among others. The bill would also require the department to to, on or before July 1, 2019, include on its Internet Web site information from the trustline registry, so that consumers may search for and obtain the status of trustline applicants and registered trustline child care providers. The bill would require the Internet Web site to enable consumers to obtain an applicant’s status by providing the first and last name, and a specified identification number or applicant number of the trustline applicant or registered trustline child care provider. The bill would require the department to to, on or before July 1, 2019, provide consumers with the ability to save in an electronic format, or to print out a document of, the Internet Web site search results for any trustline applicant or registered trustline child care provider, which shall include specified information, including, the department logo, the first and last name of the applicant or provider, his or her status, and the applicant number.

Existing law requires the department to provide the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network with a continually updated record of the trustline applicants, trustline applicants that the department denied, the registered trustline child care providers, and providers whose registration that the department revoked. Existing law provides that a trustline provider’s registration is considered forfeited under specified conditions, including if the trustline provider fails to maintain a current mailing address with the department.

This bill would require the department to provide the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network with the above-mentioned updated record, at a minimum, on each business day, and would remove failing to maintain a current mailing address as a condition for which a trustline provider’s registration is considered forfeited. day. The bill would also require a trustline provider to maintain a current mailing address with the department and would authorize the department to forfeit a trustline provider’s registration for failing to comply with this requirement.